Example sentences of "only [num] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's still only four-thirty in the morning in New Orleans . |
| 2 | Significantly , however , as Table 4 also reveals , very little of the replacement residential stock took the form of traditional hostel services : only 32 of the social services department 's additional 161 residential places were located in hostels . |
| 3 | The only important advance made by the Party was the founding of the Daily Worker in January 1930 , and that had reached a circulation of only 18,000 by the end of the following year . |
| 4 | Instead , the glory went to Gerhard Berger and the Camel-Benetton-Ford duo of Michael Schumacher — who finished only seven-tenths of a second behind the victorious Berger — and Martin Brundle . |
| 5 | Only 74 of the more than 200 people on board were rescued . |
| 6 | As a result the CPCz held only 138 of the 350 seats in the Federal Assembly , about half its previous strength . |
| 7 | From 1906 to 1912 France had to import only one-thirteenth of the grain she needed . |
| 8 | We used to , we , I used to go when my husband was alive we used to go to erm Devon cos I had a brother living in Devon we used to go there , but er unfortunately I lost him when he was only fifty with a coronary , and so erm , in , cos and after that I lost my husband you see so cos we I 've never been away like that before , not , not since , years ago that was , he 's been gone twenty one years this Christmas sixteenth might be so , I 've not been able to so I , I , I go with the erm , I went with the Red Cross this year the year before last I went erm er , Char Charlie took me away we went to er a chalet we stayed at and er a friend of mine we went there for a week had a week there , that poured of rain every day , this year it poured of rain every day |
| 9 | When the dust of the election battle settled , Terence O'Neill found himself with a minority government and the support of only eleven of the Unionist backbenchers . |
| 10 | And of those few hundred roundneck Tri-Plates , only eleven of the top-line Chrysanthemum-pattern Style 4s are known to exist . |
| 11 | Although only eight of the 23 British Columbia players who went to the World Cup were on hand for the two games it was enough to see the host province safely through to championship no.23 by virtue of wins over Alberta — and that was a close call indeed — and NEWFOUNDLAND . |
| 12 | In face of spending cutbacks in the Japanese private sector , NEC Corp is trying to drum up business for its SX-3R supercomputers by cutting monthly rental rates on 10 models in the family by up to 38% : it says it sold only eight of the things last year , down from 14 in 1991 . |
| 13 | Here only eight of the 3,000 communicants were Nonconformists . |
| 14 | Les Verts member Marie-Christine Blandin was subsequently elected president of the regional council in Nord-Pas-de-Calais ( long a socialist stronghold ) after the party Les Verts ( which controlled only eight of the 113 seats in the regional council ) refused to support the Socialist candidate . |
| 15 | In a hard race , with only eight of the 28 starters completing the 77 laps , Mansell who won the pole position with a speed of 106.627mph spun and hit a wall . |
| 16 | The Treasury is understood to be insisting that only eight of the threatened 31 pits remain open . |
| 17 | Then occasionally when we had houses broken into and so on , if it was thought that a tramp could have been responsible , it used to be a great help if we gave out nine tickets for tramps and only eight of the nine were admitted to the casual ward , then we should clamp down of course on the one who failed to turn up . |
| 18 | Only eight at the time of his brother 's accession in 1461 , he spent the early years of Edward IV 's reign in relative obscurity , overshadowed by his elder brother George duke of Clarence . |
| 19 | Only eight at the time of his brother 's accession in 1461 , he spent the early years of Edward IV 's reign in relative obscurity , overshadowed by his elder brother George duke of Clarence . |
| 20 | He was third , but only 3000 behind the winner and almost put in the Liberal in what should have been one of the safest Conservative seats in the country . |
| 21 | Whereas most of the Heralds readers were Labour supporters , only two-thirds of the Mirror 's were . |
| 22 | The number of births soon began to fall dramatically — by the early 1980s it was only two-thirds of the figure reached twenty years earlier ; car ownership did not increase at the expected rate — due in part to the sharp increase in Petrol prices in the early 1970s ; the demand for higher standards conflicted from the mid-1970s with central government 's belief that local government expenditure needed to be curtailed in line with a monetarist approach to economic policy . |
| 23 | This 24 hours is only two-thirds of the 36 hours available ; it should be considered a minimum time to allocate to private study . |
| 24 | According to our preferred model only two-thirds of the vacancies are acceptable to teenage men . |
| 25 | Only 120 of the 820 electors had been able to vote . |
| 26 | Only 120 of the 3400 rebels taken prisoner were executed and at least 40 of these were deserters from the royal army . |
| 27 | Only thirty-seven of the seventy lots presented sold , for a total of FFr11.76 million ( £1.4 million ; $2.2 million ) , with FFr12.44 million being bought in . |
| 28 | The borough MPs were very different from their county colleagues , and only thirty-seven of the eighty-six from English boroughs even lived in the same towns ; many were carpet-bagging lawyers , induced to stand at the last moment and at the expense of Central Office . |
| 29 | I could not load from 3½″ copies made from the 5¼″ sets either , as I got a ‘ VERIFY ’ message and only 2 of the 4 disks would load . |
| 30 | She feels strongly that the number of women judges — only 2 in the High Court and one Lord Justice of Appeal — is ‘ disappointing ’ . |